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It's like trying to ban kindness. Oops, it's tricky.
No, it's not. Snotty comments like yours are also against the rules. There are more than enough examples of communities running without politics.
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Except this letter didn’t come from some message board, but a source that is generally considered reliable (admin of gulagu). It would be good if you knew something about the topic before throwing around LARP-accusations. I’m willing to bet that you are completely unfamiliar with the people publicly involved in this release, odds are that you can’t even read Russian.
So maybe it’s genuine. Or the admin is bored. Or the admin got this sent randomly from someone. Maybe an FSB operative, or maybe a convincing troll, or Russian or Ukrainian or frankly any intelligence service. It’s completely unknowable. Any heuristics for determining authenticity go out the window, because they would be used by a faker too. Hell, even concluding it’s a fake is dangerous, because what if that’s the i…
Here we have a well respected journalist with a solid track record claiming that they trust their source.
Doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true, but certainly lends credibility.
This part sounds plausible, given how Russia is structured.
This sounds like when I was a solution architect working for a large consultancy a number of years back. They don’t exist now.
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I read about it like two weeks ago. They are desperate to find a justification for their war crimes. Given that Putin himself has been caught saying multiple lies, there is no point giving any credibility to them. Their "special operation" is not going to plan and they will be trying to use any trick to find some support for their atrocities.
It is perhaps history's most justified war. (In that it has so many contradictory justifications) 1. Ukraine is run by the first Jewish Nazi president. So obviously they needed to be denazified 2. Russia does not want a NATO country on it's borders. That is why it invaded a country with four NATO borders 3. Ukraine has WMDs! 4. Ukraine is actually just a part of Russia, and the Soviet Union just messed up and drew a…
A country not in NATO, and with no imminent prospects of membership, unlike the five NATO countries that actually share a land border with Russia.
At best, this does absolutely nothing about the amount of NATO on Russias border.
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Russia has been a accusing Ukraine of working to acquire nuclear weapons, with US assistance, for quite a while, though the specification that they intend to produce a dirty bomb may be a new twist on it.
Why would they need assistance? Nuclear weapons are 75 year old technology they're not difficult if you already have a nuclear industry to supply the materials.
Has nothing to do with the facts, the assistance is just a way to make the same propaganda be anti-US and anti-Ukrainian.
Interesting: news[1] just came out of Russia accusing Ukraine of working on a dirty bomb. This makes the letter seem more plausible, if it really preceeds the news. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence...
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It is perhaps history's most justified war. (In that it has so many contradictory justifications) 1. Ukraine is run by the first Jewish Nazi president. So obviously they needed to be denazified 2. Russia does not want a NATO country on it's borders. That is why it invaded a country with four NATO borders 3. Ukraine has WMDs! 4. Ukraine is actually just a part of Russia, and the Soviet Union just messed up and drew a…
> Russia does not want a NATO country on it's borders. That is why it invaded a country with four NATO borders Not commenting on the other points but I think the general idea was to create a border state between Russia proper and said NATO countries, maybe out of the whole Ukraine with a Russian puppet as president, or out of several Ukrainian statelets. If it matters I do live in one of those NATO countries borderin…
plus they need Mariupol and the protected black sea harbors.
It looks genuine, but it could also be a fake written as part of Ukrainian information war. While everything in this article looks very plausible, it could just as well be written by an outsider with good understanding of Russian politics. In that case it could be a bit skewed to paint a more optimistic picture (or if you will pessimistic from Russia's perspective).
As mentioned a lot of places, Ukraine psy ops aren't as long. Longer = more chances for mistakes. This has been vouched for by multiple people with contacts in the FSB who all say this is most likely genuine. One of the people to vouch for it is a Bellingcat employee. It also mentioned a false flag op to make Ukraine look like it's been developing nuclear weapons. News just broke of that today from Russian media, ent…
In this case it sounds like QAnon, just a bit better.